jenny wren painting

my first try at pastels,still lookstoo much like a photo

chelsea in a cube

this was a tut from one of the photo mags a neat effect

jennywren in oils

this is better but still need more practice,its a bit too rich

clone castle 1

cloned bluebell wood

I was chuffed with this tut,though didnt get the borders done properly,that is something I need to work on.

got my eye on you!

this would have looked much more effective if there had been more roses with eyes as well.

HDR DRIFTWOOD

This is my first HDR try. I did this using a plug in from the site that chase gave us earlier on. I like this effect so much that I might purchase the product after the 30 day free trial is up

DRIFTWOOD PHOTO

The same image before any alterations and the HDR effects

Inky waters

LOVE IS

this was a single black swan that I flipped over to try and resemble a heart,think its worked ok,Ijust love the effects I'm getting with this "hdr type" PLUG IN. min.

ST MARYS CHURCH crop challenge#69

It needed some twinkling stars, and a flying bat ,but didnt have any.

lady of the lake

wanted to make her look like she was made of water,did a plastic wrap and tweeked it a bit then took colour from sea and painted her ,but then I whent and put her wrong side of surf!.

1306 rainbow shells

Was trying to get a water coloured pencil effect,but lot of the detail is lost when the pic is this small,looks good fullsize on a 24'' screen,honest!LOL.

SAND MANS COMING

Used the extrude filter on this,played with hue and sat,then whent to blur,and lastley smudge stick,was going for the sand effect face,might look better if he was blended into a dessert background but dont have one.

cloud man

tried a bit harder this time,now Ican see apart from all the blend modes and artistic brush Ishould also of used the dodge and burn tools to darken him down,agghhh.getting there!

castle-in-the-sky

just playing around,didnt ger a smokey effect on the left sied of castle though,needed to blend in a lot more.

phil5

dont really know what I was aiming for here ,whatever it was,not sure its come off!!.

inky-rivers-flow

Tried to duplicate the topaz effect of my inky waters pic,nt able to get the finess in there though.

good old girl

kally,our gentle giant.

SOOTY

noddy

IMG 1169dodge-burn-lily-in-

Been practicing pencil scetches and thought this was worthy of putting in my gallery..yep I'm pleased with this one.

GHOST-WEDDING

wanted to try ghosty figuers,they are very happy ghosts though!,well it was a wedding.lol

bubbling

wanted to keep a tiny touch of colour in this,the soft blend definately took the hardness from the pic, MIN.

painted-roses

my attempt at painting roses,pleased with the soft feel.

IMG 0328 pastel-bee

just got essential painter 4,so playing with new toy,

butterfly-frm